Patents Examined by Frantz Bataille
  • Patent number: 11979805
    Abstract: The transmission-side terminal acquires a position of the reception-side terminal, using at least one of a camera and a sensor; and transmits identification information in which an identification range including the position of the reception-side terminal is specified. The reception-side terminal acquires the position of the reception-side terminal; determines whether the position of the reception-side terminal is included in the identification range specified in the identification information transmitted; and performs control to continue communication with the transmission-side terminal, if it is determined that the position of the reception-side terminal is included in the identification range, and performs control to end communication with the transmission-side terminal, if it is determined that the position of the reception-side terminal is not included in the identification range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaname Tokita
  • Patent number: 11973526
    Abstract: An assembly structure for an electronic device protecting casing and an interfacing structure with magnetic connectors includes a protecting casing for protecting a tablet form electronic device and an interfacing device for power or signal transferring to or from the protecting casing. The protecting casing includes a casing side connector. The casing side connector includes an inner connector and an outer connector. The interfacing device includes an interfacing connector. A magnetic connecting device is used for mechanically and magnetically connecting an interfacing connector of the interfacing device with an outer connector of the protecting casing. The magnetic connecting device includes at least one interfacing side magnetic unit which is installed on the interfacing device at the same side installing the interfacing connector, and at least one casing side magnetic unit which is installed one the casing side connector at the same side having the outer connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: THE JOY FACTORY, INC.
    Inventors: Sampson Yang, Yun-Chang Tsui
  • Patent number: 11966652
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: specify plural parts for manufacturing ordered product; specify plural processes required from receiving order of product to completion of product using plural parts; for intermediate part generated by processing at least two plural parts, generate intermediate object indicating intermediate part; for each plural parts, generate work objects indicating processes required for manufacturing part; create workflow information that arranges and displays, for each plural parts, work objects indicating processes required for manufacturing part in order of plural processes, and relates and displays, for each plural parts, work objects indicating processes executed continuously, in workflow information, intermediate object indicating intermediate part is associated with work objects for at least two parts used to generate intermediate part; and when processing for intermediate part cannot be started in created workflow information, perform control o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Naohiro Sawata
  • Patent number: 11963130
    Abstract: A method for type state estimation of a user equipment connected to a wireless communication network. The method comprises updating, recursively, of a type state estimate. The type state estimate is a probability for the user equipment to be a drone conditioned on obtained kinematic state estimate updates concerning the user equipment. The user equipment is assigned to be a drone as a response on the type state estimate exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Torbjörn Wigren, Sholeh Yasini
  • Patent number: 11957122
    Abstract: A robotic orchard spraying system having autonomous delivery vehicles (ADV), each autonomously delivering an amount of a premixed solution over a non-overlapping path verified by a forward-looking sensor, video, or both. Also, a mobile control center, configured to wirelessly inform the autonomous delivery vehicle of the path within the areas and to confirm that the autonomous delivery vehicle is following the path within the area. Additionally, a mapper vehicle generates the path within the area, the mapper vehicle being configured to communicate information about the path and the area to the command center. The mapper vehicle senses the path with a forward-looking LiDAR sensor, and senses the area with a GPS sensor. Moreover, a nurse truck has a reservoir of premixed solution for replenishing a tank of the ADV. ADVs and the control center communicate over a radio network, which may be a mesh network, a cellular network, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUSS Automation LLC
    Inventors: David Curtis Crinklaw, Chase Schapansky, Richard Vaccari, Jeremy Bischel, Ryan Johnson
  • Patent number: 11963004
    Abstract: A near field communication (NFC) router of a telecommunication device has communication pipes between gates of the NFC router. The pipes include a set of communication pipes to implement NFC transactions, which are coupled between radio-frequency gates of the NFC router and physical gates of the NFC router assigned to a security circuit. An attempt to use a pipe, other than one of the set, to implement an NFC transaction is detected by, in response to receiving a message in a NFC communication format via a pipe, comparing bits associated with the pipe with stored bits associated with the set of communication pipes. In response to the comparing indicating the pipe is not one of the set of communication pipes, implementation of the NFC transaction is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PROTON WORLD INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventors: Thierry Huque, Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze
  • Patent number: 11941312
    Abstract: An example method includes providing access to a database of a plurality of print devices registered to a print system, and receiving print data that identifies a print job for a print device among the plurality of print devices and a first account for a first service of the print system. The method further includes managing the print job including applying usage data for the print job to the first account based on the print data, and applying consumption data for the print job to a second account based on the print data, the second account being associated with the print device and a second service of the print system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rachel L. Chin, Michael St. Laurent, Phillip A. Mccoog
  • Patent number: 11943401
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a printer; a scanner; a display; an input interface; and a controller. The controller executes a display process for causing the display to display a standby screen included in a plurality of screens and configured to be switchable to another screen. Icons which are images associated with functions respectively are registered for each of the screens. One of a common attribute and a personal attribute is set to each of the screens. The icons include at least one icon associated with a printing function of the printer and at least one icon associated with the scanning function of the scanner. The controller further executes: a main screen setting process for setting one of the screens as a main screen; and a user mode setting process for setting a user mode for the image processing apparatus to one of an ordinary mode and an individual mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sho Ogura
  • Patent number: 11934727
    Abstract: Provided is a production method including a reception step of receiving a plurality of matters, a display step of displaying a list of the received matters, and a production step of producing a finished product by executing processing that includes a plurality of processes corresponding to the received matters, in which the production step executes processing of the matter of which the priority level is high, before executing unexecuted processing of the matter of which the priority level is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuto Fukuchi, Yasuo Koyauchi, Yuka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11930475
    Abstract: A wireless terminal determines a tracking area code (TAC) from a geographic position of the wireless terminal. From the TAC, the wireless terminal determines the tracking area identity based on an indication from the network-side regarding whether or not geographic position based tracking area identity determination is to be used or not. In some implementations, the network-side is a satellite cell that is configured to provide wireless connectivity to the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Gao, He Huang, Jianwu Dou
  • Patent number: 11922075
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is capable of receiving, from an image control apparatus capable of performing raster image processor (RIP) processing upon data, a print job and executing the received print job. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a print job, an acquisition unit configured to acquire unique information of the image control apparatus from the image control apparatus, and a controller configured to set, for a function of storing the received print job in the storage unit without executing the received print job until a print instruction is received, exception conditions for not storing the received print job. In response to acquisition of the unique information of the image control apparatus, the controller automatically sets the exception conditions based on the unique information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Anno
  • Patent number: 11914051
    Abstract: A system and method for determining accurate positions of stationary global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensors are provided. The method comprises triggering collection of satellite measurements by each of at least a first stationary GNSS sensor and a second stationary GNSS sensor, wherein the satellite measurements are collected per epoch; determining a position of the first stationary GNSS sensor using the satellite measurements collected by the first stationary GNSS; and determining a position of the second stationary GNSS sensor using the satellite measurements collected by the second stationary GNSS and at least the determined position of the first stationary GNSS, wherein the first stationary GNSS sensor is deployed in the vicinity of the second GNSS sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TUPAIA
    Inventors: Kobi Scheim, Nadav Lavi
  • Patent number: 11910284
    Abstract: An alert system outputs one or more alerts about an occupant being left in a vehicle. The alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including the occupant. If the occupant is left in the compartment after a driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller controls outputting of the one or more alerts to mobile terminals of persons including the driver. If the driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller causes the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment. If the occupant is left in the compartment, the alert controller determines whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment. The alert controller switches outputting of the one or more alerts to among the mobile terminals of the persons in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kousei Kawamura, Tomoya Kanagawa
  • Patent number: 11909897
    Abstract: A mobile phone screen protector attaching device equipped with a reinforced glass film, which includes: a screen protector attaching device main body, a connector, and a reinforced glass film. The bottom surface of the screen protector attaching device main body is formed with a holding space that matches the contour of the mobile phone and can cover the cell phone. The reinforced glass film is configured inside the area of the holding space with connection to the connector; a stopper is configured inside the area of the holding space; when the screen protector attaching device main body covers the cell phone, of the two relative ends of the reinforced glass film, one end contacts the screen of the cell phone, the other end is separated from the screen of the mobile phone by a gap due to the block of the stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Shouyun Wang
  • Patent number: 11909904
    Abstract: A selectively handsfree communications module for use in high speed pursuits includes first and second switches, which are operationally engageable to a control panel of a first radio mounted in a first vehicle and to the first radio, respectively. The first radio is equipped for two-way communication with one or both of a base station and at least one second radio of a second vehicle. The second switch is engageable to a floorboard of the first vehicle and can be actuated by a foot of an operator. Programming code, which is selectively positionable on a microprocessor of the first radio, enables the microprocessor to accept signals from the first and second switches. Switching of the first switch signals the microprocessor to operate the first radio in a handsfree operational mode, wherein a microphone and a transceiver of the first radio are actuated upon actuation of the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: William Thielman
  • Patent number: 11895560
    Abstract: A distributed type traffic line tracing apparatus of the present disclosure is personally installed in a residence of a tracing target person, to automatically verify whether a traffic line of the tracing target person coincides with a traffic line of a confirmed person and automatically report a result to a disease management authority only when the traffic lines coincide with each other in an emergency situation such as an infectious disease pandemic, so that a quarantining target person is discovered and found early while protecting a privacy of an individual much more when compared to a centralized type, thereby rapidly establishing an infectious disease management system for patients with suspected diseases and efficiently managing the patients from the spread of infectious diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventor: Jae-Chern Yoo
  • Patent number: 11886755
    Abstract: A method prepares a print job for a printing operation and includes providing at least one first data set associated with the print job and multiple reference data sets associated with reference jobs. The method is characterized in that it contains the steps of providing multiple mutually complementary data sets for each one of a plurality of reference jobs, automatically filtering the reference data sets of the plurality of reference jobs to provide at least one second data set, and using the second data set in the printing operation as a replacement of or an addition to the at least one first data set. The method provides a way of manufacturing high-quality printed products while saving time, e.g. makeready time for the printing operation, and costs, e.g. caused by unusable prints or low-quality prints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Sascha Epp, Nick Trabold
  • Patent number: 11878631
    Abstract: Disclosed is an infotainment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Choi, Nara Cho, Sungdae Cho, Sungjun Lee
  • Patent number: 11874099
    Abstract: An assembly is provided combining a low power light source, a distance measuring radio, an electrical storage and an adapter compatible with an existing socket for a light unit. The unique configuration of the assembly enables deployment of distance measuring radios in buildings, vehicles and outdoor venues without the need to install dedicated infrastructure such as electrical grid connections. A method is further disclosed of automatically determining the location of a newly installed assembly by first learning the locations of already installed neighboring assemblies, measuring the distances to such known assemblies, and using the measured distances to determine the location of the newly installed assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SECOND BRIDGE INC.
    Inventors: Dennis Palatov, Marc Ganouna
  • Patent number: 11877259
    Abstract: A paging method to improve transmission efficiency of a paging message is provided. The method includes that a first terminal device determines, in a discontinuous reception periodicity, a first paging occasion of the first terminal device. When channel listening on the first paging occasion fails, the first terminal device receives a first paging message in a time window, where a start position of the time window is determined based on the first paging occasion, and the time window includes at least one paging occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianqin Liu, Xu Zhang